NRG also announced Cleco Corporate Holdings LLC has agreed to purchase NRG’s South Central business for $1 billion, and NRG Yield has agreed to purchase NRG’s ROFO pipeline assets, which consist of the 527 MW Carlsbad Energy Center and the 154 MW Buckthorn Solar, for $407 million.

NRG said this brings its transformation plan asset sales to $2.9 billion, which includes approximately $150 of asset monetization closed in the second half of 2017.